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EDlVARl) C. ALBREE, OF B(.)STON, MASSAClllFETTS.

ACCOUNT--BOOK.

\ SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 397,681, dated February 12, 1889.

Application filed May 28, 1888. Serial No. 275,290. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD C. ALBREE, of

Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Aceount-l3ooks, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the drawings accompanying and forming a parthereof, in whieh- Figure l is a plan view of the first leaf of a set, said leaf being retained for reference, and showing an account or memorandum of a shipment from a paper-mill. Fig. 2 is a duplicate of the same for transmission to the companys oitice. Fig. 3 is a double carbonpaperhaving a strip of common paper secured on one of its faces to cover a portion thereof. certain modifications, hereinafter referred to, and having a gummed line at one end. This sheet is for transmission to the consignee. Fig. 5 is a carbon. to be placed under Fig. 4L and on top of Fig. ll, and is cut away,as shownl Fig. (3 is a railroai'l-rcceipt for the goods enumerated in 1, and is delivered to the railroad company. l i T a carbon, a duplicate of Fig. 5. liig. R is a duplicate of Fig. 6, and is retained as a duplicate railroad-re ceipt. laig. fl is a perspective view showing the pad with the carbon-papers attached.

In paper-mills and otherimuiufacturing es tablishments it is customary, when goods are shipped, to make out a memorandum or shipping-account, showing each shipment and containing the part icu lars of the same. These shipping lists or accounts are preserved at the mill for reference. An exact duplicate of them is also usually required at the city office, if the company has such an oliice, as very many such companies have. A third memorandum or account, the same substantially as the first two, but without the Fig. i is a duplicate of Fig. 1 with name of the place to which or oi? the party to whom the goods were shipped, and having in place thereof a receipt-blank,is prepared and sent to the consignee, and, in addition to these three memoranda, an original and duplicate railroad-receipt, each containing certain particulars oi the first account, must be prepared. Such shippingaccounts are at separately, and where the shipments are unmerous a great deal of time and labor are required in making them out, while frequent;

errors in copying are liable to occur, which increase the trouble and expense and create l 1 itllllOYfillCiB.

The object of. my invention is the production of a series of blanks lined or spaced otif to receive an accountot the shipmcntot' goods and the particularsthereof, as desired for the consignor, consignee, and transportation company, and. aiflapted by the use of sheets of carbon-paper of different shapes to be filled out at onewriting, all as will be hereinafter more particularly set forth.

The set of blanks shown in the drawings is designed for use by a papenmanufacturing company, and they will be described in order, beginning with the blank on top when the set is used.

At Fig. 1 I have shown the first blank. oi the set or series, which is not designed to be detached from its stub, but is to remain permanently in the book, in which a desirable number of sets is bound in order that they may be conveniently used. The second leaf or blank of the series is shown at Fig. 2, and is a duplicate oi. the first blank. This second blank is intended l'orihe cityoilice of the company, and may not be retp'lired if the company has only one oiiice. After the second blank a sheet of carbon-paper introduced like that shown in Fig. It the second blank, Fig. 2, be used, this carbon-paper is double that is, it is made to copy on both sides or surfaces--and the upper carbon surface copies on the back of the secondblank, which should present, so far as known to me, made out i being I'GSOI'VOtl For the -onsignees receipt.

(See Fig. Vith this exception the third blank corresponds with and is a duplicate of the first two. All the blanks except the first are attached to their stubs by aline of perforations, b, which enable them to be readily detached. The third blank is also provided, when desired, along its left edge with a gummed line, d, Fig. at, and may have the name and address of the consignor printed on the back, so that when the consignee receives the goods he can sign the receipt, fold the blank twice,

gum down the end, and it is ready for mailing to the consignor as evidence that the consignee has received the goods. The receipt portion of this blank, Fig. 4, is detachable by reason of the line of perforations on, so that if in any case a receiptis not desired the receipt portion may be torn off before the memorandum is sent to the consignee. After the third blank, and interposed between it and the original railroad-receipt, is a piece of carbonpaper cut away as shown at f, Fig. 5. This allows only that part of the information contained in the first blank which is required on the railroad-receipt to be copied thereon, as will be obvious. The fourth blank of the series is that of the original railroad-receipt. (Shown in Fig. 6.) Following the original railroad-receipt is another carbon-sheet (shown in Fig. 7) and a duplicate railroad-receipt. (Shown in Fig. 8.) The duplicate railroad-receipt may have the set or invoice number, which corresponds throughout the series of blanks, printed on the back, and so is ready for filing away without further backing. The carbon-sheet, Fig. '7, makes the duplicate railroad-receipt, (shown in Fig. 8,) as will be clear. The blanks at the lower portions of the railroad-receipts for the name of the place to which and the party to whom the goods are shipped correspond with those shown, Fig. 1, and, as the copying-carbons, Figs. 5 and 7, cover these portions of the blanks, the names are copied onto the railroad-receipts.

For convenience in handling, the carbonsheets are secured to a pad, (shown in Fig. 9,) which has a backing, h, of thin stiff material, as oil-board, which may readily be inserted between the bound blanks. The free ends of the carbon-sheets are also provided for the same purpose with a strip, k, of the same material, to which the ends are secured, and which enables them to be easily inserted and aligned between the blanks.

When a shipment is made, it is only necessary to insert the carbons in their proper places in a series of blanks and fill out the first blank, withdraw the carbons, tear out the second, third, fourth, and fifth blanks, and they are ready for use.

A uniform set or invoice number appears at the upper right-hand corner of each blank. In the set of blanks shown in the drawings-the number used is 81. Such a number is convenient in many waysas, for example, in finding the shipment to which a detached memorandum refers.

In case the remarks which are written on the stub of the first blank are to be copied onto the stub of the second, the carbon-paper, Fig. 3, will require to be extended to underlie the stub, and the stub of the second blank may have another line of perforations to the left of the remarks to permit of the stub being torn. out with the second blank and sent to the city office.

What I claim is A series of two or more account-blanks be ing in part duplicates, the duplicate portions being in the same relative positions on each blank, combined with one or more sheets of carbon-paper, which are cut away or. have their surfaces covered throughout those parts 7 which correspond with the portions of the account-blanks which are not duplicates, substantially as shown and described.

EDWARD O. ALBREE.

*itnesses:

WM. A. MACLEOD, ROBERT WALLACE. 

